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Earliest records are from Angus in the area known as the Mearns. Many records show Glenbervie as the place, this was both a Hamlet and a Parish name, Drumlithie is less than a mile away. Our earliest known one is John Addison, the records for his place of origin are imprecise as only say Kincardine, however there are very few local records for Addison so probably was actually Glenbervie.
Recorded from Glenbervie, Newmills, Drumlithie and Arbuthnot. They worked on several farms as farm labourers. Some worked as hand loom weavers in Drumlithie, about 1800 hand loom weaving was redundant due to the large weaving mills.
Farm life in the Mearns can only be described as harsh, an excellent book called "Sunset Song" by Lewis Grassic Gibbon and available on Kindle is recommended as a description of Farm life at this time, about 1880.
George Addison made his way from Newmills to the stone quarries in Carmyllie where he married. Then he worked his way by farms to Dundee.
In Dundee they lived close to the football grounds, Alice Isabella Addison worked as a shorthand typist. She and perhaps the whole family emigrated to Australia in 1911, on the "Orsovar" she met William Ritchie and they married in Tasmania.
Addison Tree, Addison Descendants
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